Following the denunciation of other environmental associations on the spread of the phenomenon of poaching, the coordinator of the Wwf Lombardy Voluntary Hunting Guards, Antonio Delle Monache, declared "Put a stone on in Lombardy, for this year, to the age-old story of hunting in derogation to protected birds, one would expect the law to be respected in a civilized nation and poaching to be the preserve of a small number of people. On the other hand, with the beginning of the migration of birds, the killing of protected animals and the use of prohibited means spread without limits throughout the Lombardy region ”.
This year the migratory step of finches, frosoni, siskin, just to name a few species, began extraordinarily early, but although hunting is prohibited in the province of Brescia, many protected birds have been killed anyway. Dozens of phone calls arrived on the anti-poaching telephone set up by the WWF Lombardia (328/7308288): citizens and even hunters who reported shootings throughout the province with peaks in Franciacorta, Val Camonica and in the morainic hills of Garda.
The WWF Voluntary Hunting Guards of the Brescia nucleus in the first three weeks of the Hunting Season have already identified and reported fifteen poachers for killing of protected species of various species (Piro Piro Boschereccio, Robin, Prispolone, Cutrettola, Redstart, Chaffinch), use of acoustic signals with electromagnetic operation.
A person in the Municipality of Bagnolo Mella, without a gun license, was reported for illegal carrying of a gun with the seizure of weapons. In two separate operations, some people were surprised who used an MP3 player Ipod and a mobile phone as acoustic signals; the electronic devices were seized and made available to the judicial authorities. All the kidnappings were carried out by agents of the Provincial Police, the State Forestry Corps, the Carabinieri and the State Police.
The WWF hunting guards nucleus of Pavia surprised in Oltrepò Pavese in the last weekend, two poachers from Lumezzane who in a fixed position used a sophisticated system consisting of two electromagnetic calls, three loudspeakers for sound amplification, remote control and underground electrical system.
The intervention of the Provincial Police of Pavia led to the denunciation of the two poachers on the loose with the consequent seizure of the calls, of four rifles found in the possession of the two characters and of the wild ones killed.
(9 October 2012)
Source: QuiBrescia